On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:40:15AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I suggest (again) that the entire ZLIB source code package be IMMEDIATELY
> added to the Apache source code tree. Like... TOMORROW.
>
> It seems silly to discuss adding anything like mod_gz ( or our Enhanced
> ApacheBench or any built-in IETF Content-encoding support ) unless it is
> first determined if either the GZIP source code (GPL license) or ZLIB
> ( ZLIB/LIBPNG license) will ever make it into the Apache source tree.
>
> Votes, anyone?
My interpretation of the ZLIB license at
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html
leads me to believe that zlib is compatible with the ASF license. I
believe OtherBill has already commented on that fact. I do not think
that there are any patent issues on zlib - AFAIK, that was the point
of writing zlib in the first place.
I also think that we do not need to redistribute zlib in our source
tree. I think it is common enough now that most OSes come with it.
(I look at how we handle the OpenSSL library and think zlib falls
in the same category.)
If you are willing to post a version of mod_gzip for httpd-2.0 to
this list, I will take the time to review it. However, I think
there is an advantage to using zlib in this particular case rather
than writing our own compression algorithms. -- justin
